The bill’s passage clears the way for Oakland’s last major professional sports franchise to leave town and marks a significant milestone in the team’s decades-long search for a ne…
With a commitment by Nevada to a large sum of public money, the A’s have made it past perhaps its most difficult obstacle to relocation.
And the A’s — whose green-and-gold branding, “Moneyball” mythmaking and dynastic World Series success in the 1970s transcended the team’s small-market status — will be taken from a city often seen as a gritty underdog that punches above its weight. “There was a very concrete proposal under discussion and Oakland had gone above and beyond to clear hurdles, including securing funding for infrastructure, providing an environmental review and working with other agencies to finalize approvals,” the spokesperson, Julie Edwards, said in a statement.
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